A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught in Washington state's Puget Sound is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington's 7.2 million-specimen fish ...

A prehistoric ratfish with buzzsaw-like teeth on its lower jaw puzzled scientists. But new research sheds light on how the creature caught and ate its prey. The prehistoric ratfish was a shark-like ...

Jon Reum was sick of ratfish. The University of Washington doctoral student had spent five straight days hauling up nets loaded with the slimy bottom dwellers as part of a marine survey in Puget Sound ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The researchers identified teeth on the tenaculum of ancient relatives to the modern adult male spotted ratfish. This fossil ...

» The ratfish, a cousin of skates and rays, swims along the bottom of the sound, using its ratlike teeth to crush clams, crabs and worms scooped up from the sand and mud. » Usually brown or black with ...

The ratfish has a face only a mother could love. Out of respect, we won't catalog his many oddities here, but let's just say his eyes bulge, his face is chubby, and his long tail looks like that of a ...

There may never be a campaign to save the Puget Sound ratfish; no one really loves the ugly fish with rodent-like front teeth. But when a rare albino ratfish was found during a marine survey this past ...

A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught off Whidbey Island in Washington state is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington's 7.2 million-specimen fish ...

The spotted ratfish is a two-foot-long fish with a big head and a long, skinny tail that lives in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. It belongs to a group of fish called chimaeras that are closely ...